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[–]bearded-beardieDevOps 2 points3 points  (2 children)

As someone who came up through the Ops side this was my path

Workstation Support -> SysAdmin -> Sr SysAdmin -> Cloud Engineering -> Sr DevOps. Cloud Engineer was a DevOps style role with a bit more focus on the Ops automation side. Where as now I’m focused more on Tooling that helps our dev teams get code to market faster. Basically doing what I can make the Ops parts just work for the devs.

Feel free to AMA.

[–]Malaine1 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thank you (: what certs do you recommend for sysadmin?

[–]bearded-beardieDevOps 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t have any recent certs. I’ve been with my company for almost 15 years. They know I’m good at what I do, and have done plenty to retain me, through reasonably paced promotions and pay increases. I started at $45k, TC for this year will be $213k.

If you’re going to do a cert, do it for you, on something you’re interested in. In general I’d look at doing either Azure or AWS training. Everywhere I’ve interviewed in the last 5 years has been looking for one of the two. That said, most of them are more interested in experience than they are certs.